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What Makes a Honda, is Who makes a Honda
Honda has a clear vision for the future, and it’s a joyful one.  We are looking for individuals with the skills, courage, persistence, and dreams that will help us reach our future-focused goals. At our core is innovation. Honda is constantly innovating and developing solutions to drive our business with record success.  We strive to be a company that serves as a source of “power” that supports people around the world who are trying to do things based on their own initiative and that helps people expand their own potential. To this end, Honda strives to realize “the joy and freedom of mobility” by developing new technologies and an innovative approach to achieve a “zero environmental footprint.”

We are looking for qualified individuals with diverse backgrounds, experiences, continuous improvement values, and a strong work ethic to join our team.

If your goals and values align with Honda’s, we want you to join our team to Bring the Future!

Location

Marysville, OH 

Job Purpose

The Product Owner II is a key member of an agile team and is responsible for maximizing the value delivered by the team by ensuring that the team backlog and priority is aligned with customer and stakeholder needs. As a member of the extended Product Management function, the PO is the team’s primary customer advocate and primary link to business users and product roadmap. The Product Owner II is expected to collaborate closely with cross-functional (business and IT) teams to ensure their product aligns with user needs, is delivered efficiently, and meets quality standards.

Key Accountabilities

Product Management/Enhancements: Responsible for supporting the Agile team in delivering value while providing periodic updates to leadership.

• Work with key stakeholders to prioritize and manage product backlog, manage scope.
• Guides development of features that are broken down into well written stories.
• Work closely with development teams to translate requirements into actionable user stories.
• Ensure high quality product delivery by completing testing, reporting, and tracking of defects through resolution.
• Manage user communication and assist with defect resolution.
• Ensures user stories meet the Definition of Done (DoD). 

Product Ownership and Contribution: Clarity of strategy to be able to clearly articulate the priority to the team.

• Guides roadmap activity for the product/system.
• Prioritize features and enhancements based on business value, market trends, and customer needs.
• Drives non-functional portion of product quality.
• Ensures the team focuses on value delivery for supported products/applications.
• Drives PI planning initiatives through backlog readiness and preparation.

One Way Best Way – Customer Focus: Connect with the customer and apply feedback from key stakeholders.

• Understand and empathize with customer to define and focus on the right problem to solve.
• Collaborates both internally and externally to collect, document and clearly understand business needs for user stories. 
• Guide opportunities for team level improvements.
• Regularly communicate product updates and progress to stakeholders.
• Communicates updates effectively across business and IT landscapes and escalate as needed.

Qualifications, Experience and Skills 

• Bachelor’s Degree in Supply Chain, Purchasing or Technical field (i.e. IT, Engineering) or equivalent work experience.
• 3-5 years’ experience in Purchasing, Supply Chain or Technical field. Production Control and Supply Chain experience highly recommended.
• Proven ability to manage large projects across multiple business departments. 
• Proven skills in the following: computer skills; effective verbal, presentation, and written communication skills. 
• Critical communication, presentation, and storytelling skills. 
• Well organized in a fast paced environment.
• Ability to multitask and work with minimum supervision; ability to prioritize tasks and meet deadlines.    
• Knowledge and understanding of Design Thinking process.
• Experience with Agile or Scrum processes and procedures.
• Knowledge of product ownership; IS/IT; ability to support/lead a project (J-Flow); knowledge transfer, capability to learn, understand and able to explain the system’s capability and process.
• Able to empathize with internal and external customers, understand and clearly convey sentiment.
• Knowledge of Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and/or SCRUM. 

Workstyle 

• Position is In Office (80% on-site, 20% remote).
• Typical travel: 1-3 times per year.
• Approximately 5-10 hours per week overtime, more possible during peak project activity. 

What differentiates Honda and make us an employer of choice?

Total Rewards:

• Competitive Base Salary (pay will be based on several variables that include, but not limited to geographic location, work experience, etc.)
• Paid Overtime
• Regional Bonus (when applicable)
• Industry-leading Benefit Plans (Medical, Dental, Vision, Rx) 
• Paid time off, including vacation, holidays, shutdown
• Company Paid Short-Term and Long-Term Disability 
• 401K Plan with company match + additional contribution
• Relocation assistance (if eligible)

Career Growth:

• Advancement Opportunities
• Career Mobility  
• Education Reimbursement for Continued Learning
• Training and Development programs 

Additional Offerings:

• Tuition Assistance & Student Loan Repayment
• Lifestyle Account
• Childcare Reimbursement Account
• Elder Care Support
• Wellbeing Program
• Community Service and Engagement Programs
• Product Programs

Honda is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected factor.